QWERTY typists achieve barely half the speed of Dvorak typists, who hold most world records for typing speed.
When the U.S. Navy faced a shortage of trained typists in World War II, it experimented with retraining
QWERTY typists to use Dvorak.
QWERTY typists make about twice the errors that Dvorak typists make.
Not exact matches
Some of those
typists set up typing schools, where they taught the
QWERTY keyboard familiar to them.
In a normal workday a good
typist's fingers cover up to 20 miles on a
QWERTY keyboard, but only one mile on a Dvorak keyboard.
Many businesses newly equipping themselves with typewriters ordered
QWERTY machines, because it was easy to find
typists trained to operate them.